Hello. First of all, I just wanted to share this picture with you. It's of me dressed as a vampire at a costume party I went to this past weekend. It was an amazingly good time, and I was happy that I could bring some of 'Salem's Lot into the real world for one night.
Anyway, I was reading the book yesterday, and enjoying it very much, but was having a little blockage trying to come up with something to talk about here. I realize that this novel has a lot less emotional resonance with me than Carrie did, and it is more "surface value" entertainment. But then I read this one part that immediately hit me. It was a chapter when SK is describing all of the horrible things that go on behind the closed doors of the townspeople, and how people don't see (or choose not to see) too far below the surface of the "people next door". Knowing what I do about a great many SK stories, this is also a very common theme of his. And whenever he starts to write about these things, I always get so fascinated by them in a very voyeuristic way.
I find that at my job I sometimes get to learn a little too much about the customer's I serve. I work at a bank, and let me tell you, when you work with people's finances you get a chance to see a little too far into their private lives. Sometimes it can be fascinating, but most of the time it can be a bit creepy. I see people who are compulsively gambling or buying porn online, to the point of financial ruin. I can tell who drinks too much. I see who is visiting the local sex clubs on a regular basis. I see husbands or wives hiding money from their spouses. Honestly, it all kind of gives you that "not so clean" feeling. But it really does make you stop to wonder what is going on behind the doors of the most normal looking people. Granted, I'm sure we all have things that might be looked upon as "deviant behavior" if someone was watching in through the window (I won't deny it for a minute, but then again, I have no shame.)
At any rate, just some food for thought. Hopefully, I can find the time to finish the book this week, and then watch both miniseries.
Anyway, I was reading the book yesterday, and enjoying it very much, but was having a little blockage trying to come up with something to talk about here. I realize that this novel has a lot less emotional resonance with me than Carrie did, and it is more "surface value" entertainment. But then I read this one part that immediately hit me. It was a chapter when SK is describing all of the horrible things that go on behind the closed doors of the townspeople, and how people don't see (or choose not to see) too far below the surface of the "people next door". Knowing what I do about a great many SK stories, this is also a very common theme of his. And whenever he starts to write about these things, I always get so fascinated by them in a very voyeuristic way.
I find that at my job I sometimes get to learn a little too much about the customer's I serve. I work at a bank, and let me tell you, when you work with people's finances you get a chance to see a little too far into their private lives. Sometimes it can be fascinating, but most of the time it can be a bit creepy. I see people who are compulsively gambling or buying porn online, to the point of financial ruin. I can tell who drinks too much. I see who is visiting the local sex clubs on a regular basis. I see husbands or wives hiding money from their spouses. Honestly, it all kind of gives you that "not so clean" feeling. But it really does make you stop to wonder what is going on behind the doors of the most normal looking people. Granted, I'm sure we all have things that might be looked upon as "deviant behavior" if someone was watching in through the window (I won't deny it for a minute, but then again, I have no shame.)
At any rate, just some food for thought. Hopefully, I can find the time to finish the book this week, and then watch both miniseries.
No real comment to make here, just wanted to make sure you saw this before you get to the next book...
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LOL..I love that! Believe it or not, I already have that saved on my computer. Back when I was in film school, my editing teacher showed it to us as a kickoff for an assignment where we had to create fake movie trailers using weird footage. I had to make a trailer for, "Jaws 11: This Time It's Personal", using documentary footage from a Titanic expedition. It's amazing the things you can do with some music, and some quick cuts.
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